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Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Water Energy Food and Sustainability (ICoWEFS 2021)

  • Thematic related to the Sustainable Development Goals
  • Papers present topics on agrifood, energy, sustainability and water

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Table of contents (98 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxix
  2. AGRIFOOD

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Effects of COVID-19 on Food Security, Safety and the Supply Chain

      • Haley Fox, Jennyfer Piña, Miranda Reinhart, Ahmad Pourmovahed
      Pages 3-11
    3. How Sustainable is the Millennials’ Diet? Reflections on a Qualitative Study

      • María Suárez-Gómez, Rosalina Pisco Costa
      Pages 28-37
    4. Island Housing and Peri-Urban Agriculture in the City of Luanda

      • Filomena do Espírito Santo Carvalho, Miguel Amado, Manuel Duarte Pinheiro, António Gameiro
      Pages 54-64
    5. Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Subsistence Dairy Livestock in Rural Livelihoods in the Northern Andes of Ecuador

      • Jhenny Cayambe, Marco Heredia-R, Luis Valencia, Bolier Torres, Carlos G. H. Díaz-Ambrona, Theofilos Toulkeridis
      Pages 65-74
    6. Cultivation of Gracilaria gracilis in an Aquaculture System at Mondego River (Portugal) Estuary Adjacent Terrain

      • Ana Carolina Inácio, Tiago Morais, João Cotas, Leonel Pereira, Kiril Bahcevandziev
      Pages 83-92
    7. The Challenges of Water Saving in Rice Irrigation: Field Assessment of Alternate Wetting and Drying Flooding and Drip Irrigation Techniques in the Lis Valley, Portugal

      • José M. Gonçalves, Manuel Nunes, António Jordão, Susana Ferreira, Rui Eugénio, Javier Bigeriego et al.
      Pages 93-102
    8. Risks Perceptions on Rice Production: Baixo Mondego, Portugal

      • Maria de Fátima Oliveira, Sérgio Oliveira, António Russo, Kiril Bahcevandziev, Ana Bela Lopes, José M. Gonçalves et al.
      Pages 110-119
    9. Urban Hydroponic Herb and Spice Garden

      • J. Miller, Z. Spinning, O. Swain, M. Sanchez, A. Pourmovahed
      Pages 120-126
    10. Sand-Dune Plants from the Atlantic Coast of the Iberian Peninsula: Features and Applications

      • Tiago Parracho, Daniela C. Vaz, Paula Veríssimo, Vânia Ribeiro
      Pages 127-136
    11. Comparison of Chemical Parameters in Zinc Biofortified Flours of Triticum aestivum L.: Development of a Functional Food

      • Inês Carmo Luís, Ana Coelho Marques, Cláudia Campos Pessoa, Diana Daccak, Ana Rita F. Coelho, Fernando C. Lidon et al.
      Pages 137-146
    12. Calcium Biofortification in Solanum tuberosum L. cv.Agria: A Technical Workflow

      • Ana Rita F. Coelho, Ana Coelho Marques, Cláudia Campos Pessoa, Inês Carmo Luís, Diana Daccak, Manuela Simões et al.
      Pages 147-154
    13. Agronomic Biofortification in Se of Oryza sativa L.: Food Quality Control for Baby Food Products

      • Ana Coelho Marques, Cláudia Campos Pessoa, Ana Rita F. Coelho, Diana Daccak, Inês Carmo Luís, Paula Scotti Campos et al.
      Pages 155-163

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About this book

This book presents the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Water Energy Food and Sustainability – ICoWEFS 2021, a major forum to foster innovation and exchange knowledge in the water-energy-food nexus, embracing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, bringing together leading academics, researchers and industrial experts. It contains the work of authors from 33 countries.


Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic of Leiria, Leiria, Portugal

    João Rafael da Costa Sanches Galvão, Filipe dos Santos Neves, Flávio Gabriel da Silva Craveiro, Henrique de Amorim Almeida, Joel Oliveira Correia Vasco, Luís Miguel Pires Neves, Ricardo de Jesus Gomes, Sandra de Jesus Martins Mourato

  • School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Portalegre, Portugal

    Paulo Sérgio Duque de Brito

  • School of Health Sciences, Polytechnic of Leiria, Leiria, Portugal

    Vânia Sofia Santos Ribeiro

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Water Energy Food and Sustainability (ICoWEFS 2021)

  • Editors: João Rafael da Costa Sanches Galvão, Paulo Sérgio Duque de Brito, Filipe dos Santos Neves, Flávio Gabriel da Silva Craveiro, Henrique de Amorim Almeida, Joel Oliveira Correia Vasco, Luís Miguel Pires Neves, Ricardo de Jesus Gomes, Sandra de Jesus Martins Mourato, Vânia Sofia Santos Ribeiro

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75315-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-75314-6Published: 09 May 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-75315-3Published: 08 May 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXIX, 947

  • Number of Illustrations: 51 b/w illustrations, 326 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sustainable Development

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